Cape Cod Shark News

Below are the latest news articles mentioning shark from all the local Cape Cod news sources. Most of these stories should be related to recent shark sightings, tagging and locations of Great White Sharks on Cape Cod.

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WELLFLEET—A full-blown analysis of strategies to cope with the Cape’s great white problem begins today, Feb. 22, when consultant Woods Hole Group starts its investigation into a slew of options, such as drones, underwater netting, lifeguard towers and seal culls, and other ideas aimed at…

WELLFLEET – Outer Cape towns have been collaborating in recent months to prepare for the 2019 summer tourist season as the memory of two shark attacks, one of which was fatal, still remains fresh in the minds of beachgoers. Last year, the Outer Cape was struck by two shark attacks in one month.…

Coyotes are vital members of the ecology of Cape Cod, just like the great white sharks in our ocean. Natural predators are as indispensable to a healthy planet, as clean air and clean water are to all life. When people kill natural predators, whose populations are naturally regulated by the availability…

WELLFLEET — Woods Hole Group officials received marching orders this week and will begin their study next week of alternatives for protecting the public from sharks but the results are not expected until after Labor Day.Town managers, administrators and public safety officials from Chatham,…

Today on CCTLive, we’ll talk about rival opinions at a meeting in Bourne about illegal immigration, a decision by state officials to deny a shark tagging permit and more controversy over Centerville cell phone antennas. [...]

ORLEANS – The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy has hired its first ever staff scientist. Megan Winton is an experienced fisheries biologist with expertise in shark-related research. Winton joins the Conservancy at a time when public interest in great white sharks is at an all-time high as Cape…

Massachusetts officials have denied Chris Fischer and his research organization OCEARCH a shark research permit to work in state waters for 2019.In a Feb. 8 letter to Fischer, state Division of Marine Fisheries Director David Pierce cited two great white shark attacks last summer on Cape Cod, including…